Let me tell you about the “boycott light”: It is of course difficult to directly eliminate all American products and all American technology from your life. Smartphones are one technology in particular for which there is no real European alternative. And of course, in some cases Amazon is the only place where certain products are available or where certain products are significantly cheaper than elsewhere. Boycotting is hard, but there is a way to hurt them without hurting yourself.

But: the big tech companies live from your “engagement”. The more time you spend on YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, Instagram or Facebook, the more advertising they can show you. And the more profitable you are for these companies. That's why they rely on all these addiction mechanisms, because every minute you spend there is hard cash for the companies. This also applies to the eCommerce giants. PayPal collects a commission for every payment. Visa and Mastercard too. Amazon also takes its cut and so on.

Every minute that you are not surfing Facebook but are on Lemmy, Mastodon, on other websites or even offline is a minute in which your engagement there drops and in which no profitable advertising can be shown to you. You can of course stop using those services completely and delete all accounts, but if that's not possible, a partial boycott is also a good idea. If only one of your friend groups stays on Facebook and you move with the others, that's less time spent there and therefore less profit for Zuckerberg. Your local football group wants to stay on WhatsApp, but you can move your friends to Signal? Less time spend in WhatsApp, KPIs are going down.

And of course it's hard when certain products are significantly cheaper on Amazon than in other stores. But if you compare prices before you buy and then buy many products elsewhere and don't just go for the default Amazon, then that's poison for Bezos pocket. If you simply select the other payment methods for stores and not PayPal by default, that attacks their business model. Does a store only have PayPal? Then you can of course do without the purchase completely, but: If you no longer use PayPal as the default, but only where it is absolutely necessary, then the KPIs at their HQ will be on fire.

This also applies to other digital services: If you no longer use Google Search as your main search, but only as a backup when you haven't found what you want in other search engines, then they will absolutly go nuts at Google HQ. If you use an Android phone but refuse to use the AI and all the cloud services, then that kills their engagement metrics and honestly: it doesn't do you any harm.

So: If you are unable to do a full boycott, a partial boycott is still an effective method of harming certain companies. Try to be as unprofitable as possible for you in your circumstances.

(…) There’s something familiar about the suggestion that it’s okay to build data centers that run on fossil fuels today because AI tools will help the world drive down emissions eventually. It recalls the purported promise of carbon credits: that it’s fine for a company to carry on polluting at its headquarters or plants, so long as it’s also funding, say, the planting of trees that will suck up a commensurate level of carbon dioxide.

Unfortunately, we’ve seen again and again that such programs often overstate any climate benefits, doing little to alter the balance of what’s going into or coming out of the atmosphere.

But in the case of what we might call “AI offsets,” the potential to overstate the gains may be greater, because the promised benefits wouldn’t meaningfully accrue for years or decades. Plus, there’s no market or regulatory mechanism to hold the industry accountable if it ends up building huge data centers that drive up emissions but never delivers on these climate claims.

The IEA report outlines instances where industries are already using AI in ways that could help drive down emissions, including detecting methane leaks in oil and gas infrastructure, making power plants and manufacturing facilities more efficient, and reducing energy consumption in buildings.

geteilt von: jlai.lu/post/17769069

The results are in!🎶

Hey everyone, I'm glad to announce that after fighting my lazyness, I have gathered the votes submitted until now, and am able to announce the results of the second edition of Lemmyvision! Thank you so much for participating, by sending a song together with your community, leaving feedback, or voting!!

This first ranking is based on the average position out of every vote:
1. Flomb!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (avg. rank: 3.6)
2. Lambrini Girls - God's Country (4.7)
3. Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (4.9)
3. Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (4.9)
5. Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (5.2)
6. Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (5.3)
6. Billie du Page - Fake Friends (5.3)
8. Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (5.7)
9. Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (5.8)
10. Cie Les Petites Mains - L’Anamour (6.2)
11. Lina Mayer - Raj (6.2)

Now here's a ranking based on how many time each song was ranked first :
1. Flomb!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (17 times ranked first!)
2. Lambrini Girls - God's Country (8)
3. Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (7)
4. Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (6)
5. Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (4)
6. Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (4)
7. Billie du Page - Fake Friends (3)
8. Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (2)
9. Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (2)
10. Cie Les Petites Mains - L’Anamour (1)
11. Lina Mayer - Raj (none😥)

Some interesting data: #unplugtrump by Flong! and Pe Krieger seems to be a clear favourite congratulations to feedbeat.me/@Pe and mastodon.social/@FLOMB !! All the other songs are pretty close to each other. There has been more participation overall (more submission, more votes than last year), and a lot of people from non participating instances voted (their top 3 is so diverse I can't manage to discern a pattern), thank you!

A heartfelt thank you to the participating instances, I loved listening to your songs:
- Cie Les Petites Mains - L'Anamour (French Sign Language - !pi_sourd@jlai.lu)
- Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (Austria - !austria@feddit.org )
- Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (France - !france@jlai.lu)
- Billie du Page - Fake Friends (French Canadian - lemmy.ca)
- Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (Australia - !rage@aussie.zone)
- Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (English Canadian - lemmy.ca)
- Lambrini Girls - God's Country (United Kingdoms - feddit.uk)
- Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (New Zealand - lemmy.nz)
- Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (Inuktitut - lemmy.ca)
- Lina Mayer - Raj (Slovakia - !slovakia@sopuli.xyz)
- Flomb!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (Germany - feddit.org)

This marks the end of the second edition of Lemmyvision, of course the community will stay open if anyone wants to submit songs they'd like people to discover, or have feedback on the event. I'm going to work on making the rules clear but inclusive because there were a lot of cases I didn't think about, hopefully the third edition will be super easy to get into.

Thank you again for participating, it's always fun to see communities get together, and to discover songs from other cultures, I hope you've had a great time!!

Until then, see you at Sunnyvision, somewhere around summer 🌞

Cheers!

inlandempire

2025-04-10 12:21:02

Lemmyvision 2 - The Results Are In!!

The results are in!🎶

Hey everyone, I'm glad to announce that after fighting my lazyness, I have gathered the votes submitted until now, and am able to announce the results of the second edition of Lemmyvision! Thank you so much for participating, by sending a song together with your community, leaving feedback, or voting!!

This first ranking is based on the average position out of every vote:
1. Flomb!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (avg. rank: 3.6)
2. Lambrini Girls - God's Country (4.7)
3. Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (4.9)
3. Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (4.9)
5. Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (5.2)
6. Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (5.3)
6. Billie du Page - Fake Friends (5.3)
8. Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (5.7)
9. Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (5.8)
10. Cie Les Petites Mains - L’Anamour (6.2)
11. Lina Mayer - Raj (6.2)

Now here's a ranking based on how many time each song was ranked first :
1. Flomb!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (17 times ranked first!)
2. Lambrini Girls - God's Country (8)
3. Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (7)
4. Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (6)
5. Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (4)
6. Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (4)
7. Billie du Page - Fake Friends (3)
8. Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (2)
9. Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (2)
10. Cie Les Petites Mains - L’Anamour (1)
11. Lina Mayer - Raj (none😥)

Some interesting data: #unplugtrump by Flong! and Pe Krieger seems to be a clear favourite congratulations to feedbeat.me/@Pe and mastodon.social/@FLOMB !! All the other songs are pretty close to each other. There has been more participation overall (more submission, more votes than last year), and a lot of people from non participating instances voted (their top 3 is so diverse I can't manage to discern a pattern), thank you!

A heartfelt thank you to the participating instances, I loved listening to your songs:
- Cie Les Petites Mains - L'Anamour (French Sign Language - !pi_sourd@jlai.lu)
- Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (Austria - !austria@feddit.org )
- Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (France - !france@jlai.lu)
- Billie du Page - Fake Friends (French Canadian - lemmy.ca)
- Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (Australia - !rage@aussie.zone)
- Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (English Canadian - lemmy.ca)
- Lambrini Girls - God's Country (United Kingdoms - feddit.uk)
- Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (New Zealand - lemmy.nz)
- Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (Inuktitut - lemmy.ca)
- Lina Mayer - Raj (Slovakia - !slovakia@sopuli.xyz)
- Flomb!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (Germany - feddit.org)

This marks the end of the second edition of Lemmyvision, of course the community will stay open if anyone wants to submit songs they'd like people to discover, or have feedback on the event. I'm going to work on making the rules clear but inclusive because there were a lot of cases I didn't think about, hopefully the third edition will be super easy to get into.

Thank you again for participating, it's always fun to see communities get together, and to discover songs from other cultures, I hope you've had a great time!!

Until then, see you at Sunnyvision, somewhere around summer 🌞

Cheers!

The results are in!🎶

Hey everyone, I'm glad to announce that after fighting my lazyness, I have gathered the votes submitted until now, and am able to announce the results of the second edition of Lemmyvision! Thank you so much for participating, by sending a song together with your community, leaving feedback, or voting!!

This first ranking is based on the average position out of every vote:
1. Flomb!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (avg. rank: 3.6)
2. Lambrini Girls - God's Country (4.7)
3. Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (4.9)
3. Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (4.9)
5. Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (5.2)
6. Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (5.3)
6. Billie du Page - Fake Friends (5.3)
8. Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (5.7)
9. Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (5.8)
10. Cie Les Petites Mains - L’Anamour (6.2)
11. Lina Mayer - Raj (6.2)

Now here's a ranking based on how many time each song was ranked first :
1. Flomb!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (17 times ranked first!)
2. Lambrini Girls - God's Country (8)
3. Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (7)
4. Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (6)
5. Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (4)
6. Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (4)
7. Billie du Page - Fake Friends (3)
8. Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (2)
9. Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (2)
10. Cie Les Petites Mains - L’Anamour (1)
11. Lina Mayer - Raj (none😥)

Some interesting data: #unplugtrump by Flong! and Pe Krieger seems to be a clear favourite congratulations to feedbeat.me/@Pe and mastodon.social/@FLOMB !! All the other songs are pretty close to each other. There has been more participation overall (more submission, more votes than last year), and a lot of people from non participating instances voted (their top 3 is so diverse I can't manage to discern a pattern), thank you!

A heartfelt thank you to the participating instances, I loved listening to your songs:
- Cie Les Petites Mains - L'Anamour (French Sign Language - !pi_sourd@jlai.lu)
- Bibiza - Aufnimmawiederschaun (Austria - !austria@feddit.org )
- Ultra Vomit - Dead Robot Zombie Cop From Outer Space 2 (France - !france@jlai.lu)
- Billie du Page - Fake Friends (French Canadian - lemmy.ca)
- Gurridyula - From The River To The Sea (Australia - !rage@aussie.zone)
- Rezz, Virtual Riot, One True God - Give In To You (English Canadian - lemmy.ca)
- Lambrini Girls - God's Country (United Kingdoms - feddit.uk)
- Alien Weaponry - Mau Moko (New Zealand - lemmy.nz)
- Elisapie (ᐃᓕᓴᐱ) - Quviasukkuvit (If It Makes You Happy) (Inuktitut - lemmy.ca)
- Lina Mayer - Raj (Slovakia - !slovakia@sopuli.xyz)
- Flomb!, Pe Krieger - #unplugtrump (Germany - feddit.org)

This marks the end of the second edition of Lemmyvision, of course the community will stay open if anyone wants to submit songs they'd like people to discover, or have feedback on the event. I'm going to work on making the rules clear but inclusive because there were a lot of cases I didn't think about, hopefully the third edition will be super easy to get into.

Thank you again for participating, it's always fun to see communities get together, and to discover songs from other cultures, I hope you've had a great time!!

Until then, see you at Sunnyvision, somewhere around summer 🌞

Cheers!

Die unsozialen Schergen werden wohl wieder kein Klimageld einführen, nachdem Gandalf der Gelbe es in der letzte Regierung geschafft hat so lange zu verzögern bis das Möglichkeitsfenster zu war. Wenn sie ein Klimageld planen würden hätten sie sich damit gebrüstet. So ist es offen gelassen was kommt, außer dass es irgendwie zurückfließen soll, verteilungsfragen sind hier offen.

In der jüngeren vergangenheit verlautete es aus der konservativen richtung dass das pro-kopf-klimageld ineffizient und ungerecht sei, da es pauschal sei. (Kontext: archive.ph/pEhvz) Gewünscht werden Modelle bei denen ein höherer Fußabdruck auch höhere Entlastung bringt, der soziale effekt das menschen mit unterdurchschnittlichem fußabrdruck (entweder aufgrund mangelnder mittel oder gesteigertem Umweltbewusstsein) unterm strich plus machen wird konsquent ignoriert und der soziale ausgleich sogar abgesprochen.

Man kann anscheinend Wohlfahrt nicht einfach so zulassen ohne das die laute Minderheit (Menschen mit Geld) dafür sorgt dass sie ihr Hak bekommen. Daran scheint auch offensichtliche Argumente wie die effektive entkräftung von rechten narrativen nichts zu ändern. (wer weiß vielleicht möchte man sich ja daran noch bedienen irgendwann)

Quellen zum Koalitionsvertrag:
spd.de/fileadmin/Dokumente/Koa…
diw.de/de/diw_01.c.945793.de/m…
sueddeutsche.de/politik/koalit…
klimareporter.de/deutschland/s… (-> evtl. leicht überspitzt)

EDIT:
Greenpeace hat eine studie anfertigen lassen:
greenpeace.de/publikationen/20…

Das Fediverse tut sich schwer, das volle Potential der verschiedenen Activity-Objects auszunutzen, hauptsächlich aus Angst, sie falsch oder schlecht darzustellen und deshalb teilen die meisten großen Netzwerke leider nur Notes.

Dabei könnte es so einfach sein!

@deadsuperhero schreibt auf seinem Blog, dass er eigentlich gerne Articles veröffentlichen will, aber (hauptsächlich) durch Mastodon zu Note gezwungen wird, wenn er sicher gehen will, dass der Text vollständig dargestellt wird.

Here’s the problem, though: the biggest player in the space, Mastodon, does a poor job of supporting Article. Instead, every post Mastodon uses is instead a Note. From a semantic point of view, it might not seem like there’s a lot of difference between the two: both are effectively texts posts that can contain some formatting markup, both can hold an arbitrary amount of characters, and both can effectively be used to represent a full article.

A Content-Fallback Mechanism for the Fediverse

Ironischerweise zeigt Mastodon eine föderierte Note vollständig an, auch wenn der Text weit über die eigentlich erlaubten 500 Zeichen hinaus geht, bei einem Article wird statt dessen aber nur die kurze summary benutzt.

Seine Idee: Ein Content-Fallback Mechanismus!

Das heißt jede Aktivität, egal von welchem Typ, liefert zusätzlich zu dem spezifischen Objekt, eine standardisierte Note (content-fallback):
{ "@context":[ "https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", { "Hashtag":"as:Hashtag" } ], "id":"https://wedistribute.org/2024/04/iftas-dsa-guide/", "type":"Article", "content-fallback": { "content":"IFTAS, the dedicated Trust & Safety organization ...", "mediaType":"text/plain", "summary":"", "tag":[{ "href":"https://wedistribute.org/tags/fediverse", "name":"#fediverse", "type":"Hashtag" }], "type":"Note", "updated":"2024-04-11T20:55:29Z" }}Code-Sprache: JSON / JSON mit Kommentaren (json)
Ich verstehe das Problem und finde die Idee generell nicht schlecht, aber eigentlich bietet ActivityPub alles Nötige schon von Haus aus! ActivityPub oder besser ActivityStreams ist so aufgebaut, dass alle Objekte von einem Art Base-Object abgeleitet werden. Das heißt Article, Note, Event oder Place, haben ein gleiches Minimal-Set an Attributen:

• [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-attachment]attachment[/url]
• [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-attributedto]attributedTo[/url]
• [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-audience]audience[/url]
• [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-content]content[/url]
• [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-context]context[/url]
• [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-name]name[/url]
• [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-icon]icon[/url]
• [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-image]image[/url]
• [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-inreplyto]inReplyTo[/url]
• [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-published]published[/url]
• [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-replies]replies[/url]
• [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-summary]summary[/url]
• [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-tag]tag[/url]
• [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-updated]updated[/url]
• [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-url]url[/url]
• [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-to]to[/url]
• [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-bto]bto[/url]
• [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-cc]cc[/url]
• [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-bcc]bcc[/url]
• [url=https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-vocabulary/#dfn-mediatype]mediaType[/url]
• …und mehr

Und auch wenn beispielsweise Place oder Event einige spezifische Eigenschaften haben, die nicht jede Plattform „kennt“ und „versteht“, sollte es immer möglich sein, die Beschreibung (content oder summary) und den Titel (name) anzuzeigen.

Das Prinzip ist ähnlich wie, wenn nicht sogar inspiriert durch, schema.org/Thing. Auch hier basieren alle Objekte letztendlich auf einem Thing und trotz der wesentlich größeren Anzahl¹ an Objekten und Attributen, können Suchmaschinen sich immer sicher sein, dass es zumindest einen name, eine description und eine url zum Anzeigen gibt.

Bevor wir über also über ein `content-fallback` nachdenken, sollten wir (meiner Meinung nach) erst einmal dafür sorgen, dass die vorhanden Möglichkeiten richtig genutzt werden.

1. The vocabulary currently consists of 806 Types, 1474 Properties 14 Datatypes, 90 Enumerations and 480 Enumeration members. – schema.org/docs/schemas.html ↩︎

This is pretty huge news for Mastodon users: Once this feature is up and running comments to a post will not be limited to whatever is federated to your server through indirect means. The whole platform should feel a lot more vibrant after this, and it addresses what has been one of the main complaints about Mastodon.

It is summarized like this by @FediTips@social.growyourown.services:

Some good news about #Mastodon, there has been a very significant bit of code added which will automatically fetch all the replies in a thread. This means everyone will be able to see a thread's whole conversation no matter which server they are on! 🥳

The code has just been "merged" which means it should become available in the next update to Mastodon, hopefully within the next few months.

(Those who want the technical details can see the Pull Request at github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…)

While it is exciting, Mastodon CTO @renchap@oisaur.com points out that we maybe shouldn't expect too much too soon, although it is a big step in the right direction:

it is important to point out that this is very experimental, behind a feature flag, and there will be a need for more changes to get it in front of people.
Also we don’t recommend activating it yet, this may have significant performance implications or bugs.

Fedi.Tips

2025-03-12 12:09:01

Some good news about #Mastodon, there has been a very significant bit of code added which will automatically fetch all the replies in a thread. This means everyone will be able to see a thread's whole conversation no matter which server they are on! 🥳

The code has just been "merged" which means it should become available in the next update to Mastodon, hopefully within the next few months.

(Those who want the technical details can see the Pull Request at github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…)

(Via @rolle)

Add Fetch All Replies Part 1: Backend by sneakers-the-rat · Pull Request #32615 · mastodon/mastodon

Fix: #9409 Fix: #14017 Fix: #18150 Original PR Here: NeuromatchAcademy#44 Further description here: NeuromatchAcademy#43 I've never made a PR for upstream before, so forgive me if i'm doing...

^GitHub